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Music Michael Del Rosario at apologetics guy.com. Hey, everybody. In the newsletter a couple weeks ago, I had the 30 things I've learned in 30 years of ministry. I have to be honest. This is one of those pieces that I thought. There's not going to be many people who will be interested in this, but it's really helpful

for me to think it through.

And so this one's just kind of one of the quirky little ones that I'm doing for me.

And ironically enough, it turned out I have gotten more response about this newsletter than anyone in memory for me.

And so we decided to record it for you because I've been reflecting over the last couple of weeks about the fact that it slipped up on me. I didn't realize that August

the 6th marked the 30th anniversary of my ordination to ministry by the Bay Vista Baptist Church in my hometown,

Blexie, Mississippi. So as I was thinking about that and kind of creeped out by how long that's

been, I decided to write down 30 things I've learned

in those years. Now, keep in mind, these are not the 30 most important things I've learned

because I would have never even written that piece because I would have said, I'm not sure,

what if I leave out this and what have I put in this? There's nothing that exalted. I tricked myself

into writing this by just forcing myself to do it randomly. They're not organized. It's just

no time between writing down each of these bullet points. And some of them are things that you've heard

be made here before or other places, and some of them you haven't because they never occurred to me until I sat right down to do it.

They're in no particular order.

And so here they are, 30 things I've learned in 30 years of ministry.

Thing number one, in preparing to preach, teach, and in everything else I've ever done,

my immersion since childhood in the scriptures turned out to be more important than graduate

and postgraduate education in systematic theology.

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